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A couple of alternatives for Linux users. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#Emoji_input https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#Emoji_input The kitt

A couple of alternatives for Linux users. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#Emoji_input https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#Emoji_input The kitty terminal emulator supports this out of the box (it also works on two other platforms): https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Ctrl+Shift+U opens a Unicode input panel with fuzzy search by symbol code or name.

sphaerophoria 6y ago
There's also https://github.com/salty-horse/ibus-uniemoji https://github.com/salty-horse/ibus-uniemoji if you want something a little more interactive. I wrote https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox for myself because I wasn't quite happy with the performance of any of the solutions I found.
lights0123 6y ago
GNOME has Ctrl+period.
- lbhdc 6y ago
 Does it? I am in stock gnome and this shortcut isn't bound by default. What distro are you using?
 - dcminter 6y ago
 I believe it has to be a GTK app - which almost none of the things I use on a daily basis are. Try in gedit or something like that. My daily drivers are IntelliJ, Firefox, Chrome, and Terminator so it's not super useful to me... :'(
 - lbhdc 6y ago
 Oh wow, you are totally right, that does work in GTK apps. My daily drivers are about the same :(
 - lobstrosity420 6y ago
 Check out this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1162/emoji-selector/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1162/emoji-selector/ It implements a system level emoji keyboard that you can trigger with <Super + e>. It works pretty great and on all apps, I use it a lot.
- thesuitonym 6y ago
 KDE has one, too. Not sure what the default was, I remapped it to Super+Period
 - gerdesj 6y ago
 I use KDE and I've never tried it before. Win+. works!
- dorfsmay 6y ago
 It doesn't do anything for me. Can you point to a doc?
gnull 6y ago
I use Compose key for this, surprised nobody mentioned it here yet. This way it works in all X11 apps (Sway supports this out of the box as well), with no need for extra software or some specific desktop environment. Just put something like <Multi_key> <semicolon> <parenright> : "" <Multi_key> <t> : "" <Multi_key> <t> <d> : "" in your ~/.XCompose. Yes, you have to put all the emojis you want there manually, but I use very few of them so it works for me. EDIT: HN removed the emojis from my snippet. The double quotes there contained smiling face, thumb up, and thumb down.
- boogies 6y ago
 My n00buntu derivative has some emojis and other logograms out of the box, eg. lines 326–337 of /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose: <Multi_key> <C> <C> <C> : "" U262D # HAMMER AND SICKLE <Multi_key> <O> <A> : "Ⓐ" U24B6 # CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A <Multi_key> <less> <3> : "♥" U2665 # BLACK HEART SUIT <Multi_key> <colon> <parenright> : "" U263A # WHITE SMILING FACE <Multi_key> <colon> <parenleft> : "" U2639 # WHITE FROWNING FACE <Multi_key> <backslash> <o> <slash> : "" # PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION <Multi_key> <o> <o> : "" U1F4A9 # PILE OF POO <Multi_key> <F> : "" U1F595 # REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED <Multi_key> <L> <L> <A> : "" U1F596 # RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS Unbutchered: http://ix.io/2SsC http://ix.io/2SsC
 - tux3 6y ago
 Oh, those are in Debian, as a matter of fact!
- bmn__ 6y ago
 https://github.com/kragen/XCompose https://github.com/kragen/XCompose for those who prefer a more methodical approach.
mxmilkb 6y ago
https://github.com/Mange/rofi-emoji https://github.com/Mange/rofi-emoji
- codethief 6y ago
  And another character picker for Rofi: https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/

sphaerophoria 6y ago

There's also https://github.com/salty-horse/ibus-uniemoji https://github.com/salty-horse/ibus-uniemoji if you want something a little more interactive. I wrote https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox for myself because I wasn't quite happy with the performance of any of the solutions I found.

lights0123 6y ago

GNOME has Ctrl+period.

lbhdc 6y ago
Does it? I am in stock gnome and this shortcut isn't bound by default. What distro are you using?
- dcminter 6y ago
 I believe it has to be a GTK app - which almost none of the things I use on a daily basis are. Try in gedit or something like that. My daily drivers are IntelliJ, Firefox, Chrome, and Terminator so it's not super useful to me... :'(
 - lbhdc 6y ago
 Oh wow, you are totally right, that does work in GTK apps. My daily drivers are about the same :(
 - lobstrosity420 6y ago
 Check out this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1162/emoji-selector/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1162/emoji-selector/ It implements a system level emoji keyboard that you can trigger with <Super + e>. It works pretty great and on all apps, I use it a lot.
thesuitonym 6y ago
KDE has one, too. Not sure what the default was, I remapped it to Super+Period
- gerdesj 6y ago
  I use KDE and I've never tried it before. Win+. works!
dorfsmay 6y ago
It doesn't do anything for me. Can you point to a doc?

gnull 6y ago

I use Compose key for this, surprised nobody mentioned it here yet. This way it works in all X11 apps (Sway supports this out of the box as well), with no need for extra software or some specific desktop environment. Just put something like <Multi_key> <semicolon> <parenright> : "" <Multi_key> <t> : "" <Multi_key> <t> <d> : "" in your ~/.XCompose. Yes, you have to put all the emojis you want there manually, but I use very few of them so it works for me. EDIT: HN removed the emojis from my snippet. The double quotes there contained smiling face, thumb up, and thumb down.

boogies 6y ago
My n00buntu derivative has some emojis and other logograms out of the box, eg. lines 326–337 of /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose: <Multi_key> <C> <C> <C> : "" U262D # HAMMER AND SICKLE <Multi_key> <O> <A> : "Ⓐ" U24B6 # CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A <Multi_key> <less> <3> : "♥" U2665 # BLACK HEART SUIT <Multi_key> <colon> <parenright> : "" U263A # WHITE SMILING FACE <Multi_key> <colon> <parenleft> : "" U2639 # WHITE FROWNING FACE <Multi_key> <backslash> <o> <slash> : "" # PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION <Multi_key> <o> <o> : "" U1F4A9 # PILE OF POO <Multi_key> <F> : "" U1F595 # REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED <Multi_key> <L> <L> <A> : "" U1F596 # RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS Unbutchered: http://ix.io/2SsC http://ix.io/2SsC
- tux3 6y ago
 Oh, those are in Debian, as a matter of fact!
bmn__ 6y ago
https://github.com/kragen/XCompose https://github.com/kragen/XCompose for those who prefer a more methodical approach.

mxmilkb 6y ago

https://github.com/Mange/rofi-emoji https://github.com/Mange/rofi-emoji

codethief 6y ago
And another character picker for Rofi: https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/